Sketching started 27 January 1948;   full score completed 6 March 1948

3 flutes (1 also picc), 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons (1 also contra), 4 horn, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, cymbals, suspended cymbal, triangle, tambourine, side drum, bass drum, glockenspiel, xylophone, strings

in one movement:  Scherzo Allegro vivace e giocoso,   E major - Trio  Meno allegro ma tranquillo ,  D major  [193 bars]

[a] Mackerras 7:25   [b] Brabbins 6:44

Schott and Co, 1949
assigned to Musica Viva, 1972
transferred, 1985, to United Music Publishers Limited

Performances

23 June 1949 . given as a BBC New Music Rehearsal
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Eric Warr

25 June 1950 . live BBC studio broadcast (Scotland only)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Eric Warr

2 October 1951 . live BBC studio broadcast (Home Service [now BBC Radio 4])
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Eric Warr

12 February 1972 [first public performance] . Hammersmith Town Hall
Fulham Municipal Orchestra, conductor Josef Vandernoot

23 September 2008 [US première] . Marvin Cole Auditorium, Fine Arts Building, Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston, Georgia, USA
DeKalb Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fyodor Cherniavsky

Commercial recordings

2 May 1987 . Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool / EMI
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Sir Charles Mackerras

31 May - 1 June 2012 . RSNO Centre, Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow / Dutton
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins

Released as Dutton CDLX 7296, November 2012

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